Horses

It's all fun and games, until a cowgirl kicks your butt.
My mother (bottom picture) introduced me to the wonderful world of horses and probably made me catch "horse fever". I have been riding since I was six, so considering right now I am 13, horses have been part of my life for a while! I have ridden draft horses and ponies including Fells, Halflingers and Perchereons, Thoroughbreds, Paints, Palominos, Quarter horses, American Saddlebreds, Morgans, Paso Finos, and many others! I have ridden Western Pleasure, Dressage, English Hunt Seat, and currently ride Saddle Seat. Right now, I ride an amazing ex-show horse American Saddlebred. He is a chestnut with a flaxen mane and long tail. He was a show horse, three gaited, and he just wasn't right for the ring, so now I get to ride him, and hopefully I can show him someday!

 As most of my friends can tell you, horses are the main point I am here on this very Earth. Not really, but I like to pretend that's why! I love horses and it comes back to everything I talk about, I wrote a 7 page essay about learning to trot, I related running in a group to a horse herd, 99.999999999% of the books in my room are about or relating to horses, but needless to say, I am not that crazy compared to others, but I have more than the normal 'horse fever' case. Trust me on that one!!!

Pictures: Sweet Inspairiation (Thoroughbred) and I, Hunt Seat, 2009
Princess (pony) and I, English, 2005
Snickers (Draft horse)and I, Western, 2012
Kalamara's Wildfire (American Saddlebred) and I, Saddle Seat, 2012
Cleopatra (Paso Fino) and I, Western, 2012
My mother and her neighbors horse (Quarter horse I think), Western, I don't know when

I will post more about horses in the near future and beware of updates!